ab811440e4
The app shipped cbcrowe/pihole-unbound — a third-party bundle last
rebuilt 841 days ago. Pi-hole itself is fine: the official
pihole/pihole was rebuilt 42 days ago. We packaged an abandoned fork,
not a dead project.
Not a tag swap. The official image is v6, which replaced nearly every
v5 environment variable with an FTLCONF_ equivalent — and the container
ACCEPTS the old names and ignores them, so a v5-style block looks
correct while configuring nothing, including the admin password:
WEBPASSWORD -> FTLCONF_webserver_api_password
WEBTHEME -> FTLCONF_webserver_interface_theme
PIHOLE_DNS_ -> FTLCONF_dns_upstreams (";" separates values)
DNSSEC -> FTLCONF_dns_dnssec
DNSMASQ_LISTENING -> FTLCONF_dns_listeningMode
REV_SERVER{,_TARGET,_DOMAIN,_CIDR} -> FTLCONF_dns_revServers, one
combined "<enabled>,<cidr>,<target>,<domain>"
FTLCONF_LOCAL_IPV4 -> gone in v6
listeningMode is ALL rather than the old "single": on a bridge network
queries arrive via the docker gateway, and "single" drops them.
The bundled unbound is gone, so PIHOLE_DNS_=127.0.0.1#5335 pointed at
nothing. New CFG_PIHOLE_UPSTREAM_DNS defaults to Quad9, with the config
documenting how to point it at the unbound app for full recursion. The
freed port slot becomes the (disabled) DHCP port, which v6 supports.
Volumes: v6 keeps config, databases and gravity under /etc/pihole, and
ignores /etc/dnsmasq.d unless explicitly re-enabled — so the old
two-mount layout is replaced by a single ./etc-pihole.
Variable names taken from the official v5->v6 upgrade doc, not memory.
Substitution verified end to end: every placeholder resolves and
revServers renders in the documented format.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
LibrePortal
Your own private corner of the internet — free, open, and yours.
LibrePortal is a self-hosted platform for running the apps you rely on, on your own server: one-click installs, a reverse proxy with automatic SSL, rootless Docker, optional VPN routing, and a clean web dashboard to manage it all.
⚠️ v0.1.0 — early days. Expect rough edges while things settle.
Why LibrePortal
Too many services today treat your data as theirs to take — quietly overstepping boundaries that should never have been crossed. LibrePortal grew out of frustration with that: it's a way to run the apps you depend on on your own server, where your data stays yours. Privacy here isn't a feature to toggle — it's the whole point.
Free & open — forever
The entire platform is free software under the GNU AGPLv3. Self-host it and you get everything — every feature, no paywalls, no telemetry. See our Promise for exactly what that means.
What you get
- 📦 One-click self-hosted apps (Nextcloud, Vaultwarden, Jellyfin, Gitea, …)
- 🔀 Traefik reverse proxy + automatic Let's Encrypt SSL
- 🔒 Rootless Docker, CrowdSec, sane security defaults
- 🛡️ Optional VPN routing (gluetun) for any app
- 🖥️ A web dashboard to install, configure, back up, and monitor everything
Quick start
curl -fsSL https://get.libreportal.org/install.sh | sudo bash
This installs a versioned, checksum-verified release (Debian/Ubuntu, root). Put
data on separate disks with --system-dir= / --containers-dir= / --backups-dir=.
The
get.libreportal.orghost is still being set up — until it's live, build a release and install from it locally (see the docs below).
Documentation
- docs/guide/install-and-use.md — install, place data on separate disks/drives, update, back up, uninstall.
- docs/contributing/development.md — run a dev copy, cut stable/edge releases, and test them before publishing.
LibrePortal Connect (optional)
Self-hosting is free and complete. If you'd rather not fiddle with the tricky parts — like reaching your server from your phone, or keeping off-site backups — LibrePortal Connect will handle them for you. Here's the catch that makes us different: we work like a courier carrying a sealed box. We move your data between your devices and store backup copies, but it stays locked and you hold the only key — we can't open it, and we never run your apps for you. Everything we offer, you can also set up yourself for free. Our Promise spells out exactly where that line sits.
Contributing
PRs welcome — see CONTRIBUTING.md. We use a lightweight
DCO sign-off (git commit -s), no CLA.
Acknowledgments
LibrePortal has been built from scratch since 2023. Its spark of inspiration
was a small installer script from Brian McGonagill (OpenSourceIsAwesome):
gitlab.com/bmcgonag/docker_installs.
From that seed it grew start to finish — refined, extended, and refactored
into the platform it is today.
License
GNU AGPLv3. What's open stays open.